Mary Chapin Carpenter Got Started In Humble Vegetarian Roots
Written by Vegetarian Star on July 30th, 2012 in Business, Female Musicians, Female Singers, Food & Drink, Restaurants.
Mary Chapin Carpenter made Billboard Top 20 singles from albums like State of the Heart and Shooting Straight in the Dark in the late 80s and early nineties.
By 2005, she had sold more than 12 million records and won four consecutive Grammys for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
Hard to imagine she got started in a tiny, cozy establishment that served hummus and veggies to concert goers.
Recalling some of the venues she played early in her career, Carpenter said, “Kramerbooks and Afterwards Café. A place that used to be known as Gallagher’s Pub on Connecticut Avenue, which I believe is now called Nanny O’Briens. A wonderful, fabulous, storied, no-longer-there-but-famous place called Food for Thought on Connecticut Avenue, a vegetarian restaurant. I passed the hat there on Friday nights.”
“You know, just little joints around D.C. I had some wonderful times and incredibly dear friends and other musicians and we would hang out together.”
Music and mushroom pate lovers alike can still enjoy the night life without traditional fried bar food of onion rings. One of Carpenter’s early performing roots, Food For Thought, formerly on Connecticut Ave., is now located inside the Black Cat Club on 14th Street. They’re still serving great vegetarian and vegan side dishes and entrees like vegan nachos, vegan hot dogs, and the homemade, vegan “Black Cat Burger,” a hearty patty made of barley, bulgar wheat, brown rice and black beans, seasoned with items like allspice, peppers and Liquid Smoke.
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